The Inheritance Reviews

Quinn plays a despicable South Italian baker who retires and sells his shop, giving the entire profit to one of his three grown children, boot-licking idiot Proietti, as his inheritance. None, however, goes to son Testi, a gambling playboy whose debts Quinn has already paid off, or to Quinn's only daughter, Asta, who married a man her father despises. After 20 years of slaving and sweating in his father's bakery, Proietti is determined to open a hardware store, despite his ignorance about the business. He's aided by Sanda, an intelligent but manipulative working-class woman, in securing government construction contracts. In the process, she reunites the three children (who previously weren't on speaking terms), makes eyes at the suave Testi, and puts a move on the hated patriarch. THE INHERITANCE has plenty of what makes soap opera the wonderfully trashy art form it is: magnificent settings, powerful and unscrupulous characters, and plenty of sexual encounters. The ludicrous dialog is dubbed in English.